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Winter Feed Costs
Of Heifers Studied
Winter feed costs for re
placement beef heifers nfay
be ii educed by 25 percent by
limiting food intake without
reducing repi odmctive ability,
■accoiding to University o£
Mis&oum research.
L Wili'Ji'am Eaton, Jr., ani
mal husbandry department re
seal cher, says three studies
c'oncernmg effects of winter
ing beef heifeis at different
levels of feeding have been
made
Within each trial, rations
containing three levels oi
energy high, medium, and
Pow weie fed
Eaton notes that based on
the studies, it appears that
minimum requirements for
maintaining the reproductive
ability of yearling heifers to
be bred in early spring falls
somewhere between 4® and
6 7 p'ounds per head daily of
total digestible nutrients
(TON) This is considerably
below the nine pounds of
TD’N presently recommended,
Eaton says
'This lower level of feeding
dhd not produce nonmial body
weigihlt gains and delayed at
tamm’ent of matin e body
weight
The MU research has showtn
that 'Heifeis fed 6 7 pounds o)
TDN pei head daily fiom a
65 percent ground ear corn
ration will breed and con
ceive readily
In the thud tual, comple*
ed recently, the low level
heifers weie fed 4 3 pounds
of TDN throughout the ex
penment These heifers gen
ei'dlly failed to cycle or cvu
late dm mg the winter months.
However, m the spuing and
summer, T 4 of the 16 heifers
eventually cycled and Weie
serviced Of these, 12 weie
diagnosed s'afe in calf, one
aborted at 4V2 months Sev
en, of these heifers settled
upon fiist service in April
Al’ll research heifers weie
fed in diyl'ot wilth access to
sheHLer Good environment foa
heifers nvay tend to i educe
minimum TDN i equu ements,
Eaton points out
No apiptn ent duffeience was
observed between weaning
weights of calves from hew
ers used in the first of the
three tual's
Heifers fed the low eneigy
ration in the second trial re a
ceived 6 7 pounds of TDN per
head daily until one ahonth.
before breeding started' in
April The ration was then
cut to 43' pound's TDN daila.
Those heifers mlade slight
weight gams until the feed
ing level was ieduced They
lost weight dining the breed
ing p'euod Alt the time mlost
heifei s weie bred, their
weig'Jt was seven peicent less
than the initial aveiage of
721 pounds
Eaton says, “In geneial, al
though heifers in the second
tu’al 1 on the low level latiou
were in trim condition, they
conceived with less diffucuil&y
than did heifeis fed medium
or high energy rations ’
SUPPLIER OF ARMS
Pennsylvania was a leading
supplier of aimaments to the
Union Amy The 'Shaips
breech-loading rifle and a cai •
bine-type weapon 'were devel
oped before 1860 in Pennsyl
vania The carbine was turned
put at a rate of 1,000 a month,
and was probably the besi
rifle of the Civil War The
Philadelphia Navy Yaid built
the gunboats necessary to
blockade the Confederate
poasthne. Pennsylvania, ia
many ways, justified its repu
tation as the keystone state
in the war between the states.
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